What about the case where most products don’t have offerings, or the offerings don’t have merchants, vel cetera? If this were a frequent case, and this were inner-loop code, I might introduce a global empty object in order to reduce the object instantiation overhead (which happens right away) and the GC load (which shows up over time). E.g. define var $N={}, and use:
var product = ...,
merchantName = (((product||$N).offering||$N).merchant||$N).name;
if (merchantName)
displayMerchantName(merchantName);
Ivan Pavlov on 21 Mar 08A Service Mapping Description (SMD) is a JSON representation describing web services. An SMD can defines the various aspects of a web service such that clients can coherently interact with the web services. An SMD can be used by generic tools to generate interfaces, human and programmatic, to access available web services. A wide array of web services can be described with SMD including REST services and JSON-RPC services. The SMD format is designed to be flexible, compact, simple, readable, and easily implemented.
